Managerial Econ

Economic Analysis of Business Practice

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Aceppting Late Bids?

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  Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has produced an unusual auction: Google agreed to pay $10 million for a trove of Spirit’s internal corporat...
Monday, August 24, 2026

WaPo: Social Security and Medicare going bankrupt

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Saturday, August 22, 2026

How AI Might Affect Demand

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Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a technology that will lower costs by replacing skilled workers, but ophthalmology provides ...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Regulatory Limits on Personalized Pricing

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The FTC has proposed a new rule governing personalized pricing , the increasingly feasible practice of using information about an individual...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

How Low Should Seasonal Discounts Be?

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Retailers often mark down seasonal merchandise to clear inventory, but how big should the discount be? An Impact Analytics article describe...
Friday, August 7, 2026

Compensating differentials outlawed in Birmingham

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 From MarginalRevolution : In 2010 an employment tribunal ruled that Birmingham City Council had discriminated against thousands (6,000) of ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

A Pac-Man Defense Against Predatory Pricing?

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After the story of how Southwest Airlines broke an attempt at predatory pricing with booze , I learned of the Dow vs. Die Deutsche Bromkonve...
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Cost of Going to Space

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Terzi & Nicoli have a fascinating new paper analyzing over 4,400 orbital launches since 1960 to estimate "Wright's Law." ...

Incentive Misalignment in Communism: the case of Vietnam

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Rainer Zitelmann writes in How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam in Reason Magazine, The state collectives did not reward members for t...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Using Demand Signals to Re-Price

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A CNBC story indicates that Starbucks repeatedly raised menu prices over the past several years. Initially, this strategy worked well. High...
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